Form.io - Ease of integration and customization
What do you like best?
Ability to pick and choose from a deep set of features (security, post-actions, etc..).
Ability to augment the existing feature set using a variety of control customizations to fit our very specific needs.
UI was easy to grasp for our less technical employees.
What do you dislike?
Nothing sticks out in my mmind as being immediatly dislikable. All the "difficult" parts are just typical of development work.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to do your homework in ensuring Form.io will fit your needs. There are a lot of features baked into the product already and simply describing what you are looking for to the Form.io team often results in an existing solution. Do note that many of these features are optional, and the ability to customize the usage of Form.io in your environment will let you further expand the already robust feature set.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We had the task of replacing our custom Form Management in a new Angular environment. Our choice was to rebuild what we had already or look at the market for another option.
Finding Form.io, we not only saw a product that nearly matched our custom development, but it had taken things a step further with augmentations such as PDF Forms, a robust control customization system, as well as PDF generation of submissions. Some features had been lacking from what we had previously. However, with the level of customization immediately available, we were able to rebuild said features. Examples of these features includes:
- Dynamically build a form by inserting other templates on the fly
- Pre-populating our thousands of generic forms with specific data from our system.
With all the above in place, we have a robust form delivery and management system that integrates seamlessly with our products.
